Article
Negative regulatory role of the Escherichia coli hfq gene in cell division.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications - 20 Dec 1999
Takada A, Wachi M, Nagai K
Abstract excerpt
We found that the hfq::cat mutant strain produced minicells at high frequency. Minicell production by the mutant strain was more prominent in poor media and in the stationary phase than in rich media and in the exponentially growing phase. The amount of the cell division protein FtsZ increased up to two- to threefold of the wild-type cells in the hfq::cat mutant in the stationary phase, while such differences...
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